TechNet Cyber Supporting Partner Opportunities
Stand Out in the Crowd! If branding, lead generation and market visibility are important to your organization, the supporting partner opportunities available at TechNet Cyber 2023 are exactly what you need. This event attracts over 4,000 cyber security professionals, who want to see the leading industry solutions, and take part in networking and business building opportunities.
Have an idea for a supporting partner opportunity you don't see listed below? Let us know! We are happy to discuss possibilities with you. Contact us today!
Deadline to purchase a Supporting Partnership is April 13th.
Tuesday, April 25, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
All times EDT
Register to attend - the webinar will run live on April 25 and will remain available on demand through TechNet.
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) provides, operates and assures command and control, information-sharing capabilities and a globally accessible enterprise information fabric that directly supports national-level leaders, the military services, combatant commands and coalition partners across the full spectrum—from competition through conflict. During the upcoming AFCEA TechNet Cyber Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, May 2-4, DISA leaders will deep dive an array of topics tied to Command and Control: DISA’s No-Fail Mission, Securing and Leveraging Data, Forging Partnerships to Win, Optimizing the...
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Wednesday, April 26, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
All times EDT
Register to attend - the webinar will run live on April 26 and will remain available on demand through TechNet.
The DoD Software Modernization Strategy, approved February 1, 2022, recognized that the Department increasingly relies on software and the ability to securely and rapidly deliver resilient software. Transforming software delivery times from years to minutes requires significant change to our processes, policies, workforce, and technology. The Strategy challenged us to be bold…to lead the transformation of technology, process, and people in delivering resilient software capability at the speed of relevance. The DoD Software Modernization Implementation Plan is the follow-on call...
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Sunday, April 30, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Room: West Pratt Street Lobby
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Monday, May 01, 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
- Room: West Pratt Street Lobby
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Tuesday, May 02, 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM
- Room: West Pratt Street Lobby
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Tuesday, May 02, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
- Room: Halls E, F, G and Swing
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Tuesday, May 02, 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Dr. Chan and Mr. Holloway will welcome attendees with opening remarks and Symposium overview....
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Tuesday, May 02, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Tuesday, May 02, 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Mr. Wesley will provide a description new DoD Directives and Instructions focused in DoD Public Safety Communications, and the status of the issuance of these new policy documents....
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Tuesday, May 02, 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, May 02, 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Tuesday, May 02, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
DISA will forge partnerships to win, with the foundation that our mission is accomplished through a strong workforce. The Great Resignation – Crisis or Opportunity? Discussion will touch on possible causes of mass resignations, employee retention during these difficult periods, and navigating recruitment in the era of the Great Resignation. Topic to be addressed from federal, defense, academic, and private industry perspectives....
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The Office of Small Business Programs provides feedback to small businesses on things they need to stop doing. This will be provided through a hopefully humorous comedy sketch demonstrating actual mistakes small businesses make when trying to work with the Department of Defense. This memorable, upbeat skit will build on the Tough Love segment presented previously. This session will offer an inside look into tips, methods, and guidance on how to engage with the government....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 1: Swing Hall - #3203
As a Combat Support Agency (CSA), the Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) provides capabilities to the joint warfighter critical to supporting global operations. Ensuring the operation and readiness of these capabilities requires a continuous improvement approach to its security posture in cyberspace as well as its prevention, detection, analysis, and response to cybersecurity incidents. Mr. Darrell Fountain (Chief, DISA Cybersecurity Service Provider) and CAPT Aaron Littlejohn (Commander, DISA Joint Operations Center) will discuss the line of demarcation between CSSP and DCO, how the Agency presently works to address the “seams” between the two and identify technology solutions that would aid...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 2: Hall E - #2301
Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU for: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, and Linux+; 1 CertNexus CEC for CyberSec First Reponder (CFR)
DoD365-Sec is a part of the overall DEOS Portfolio. DEOS delivers standardized collaborative and communication toolset for the department, which enables seamless collaboration efforts across combatant commands, military services, and defense agencies worldwide in a dependable, user-friendly environment. DEOS equips the warfighter with the communication and collaboration tools necessary to do their jobs, anytime, from anywhere.
The panel will provide an overview of the single classified cloud environment with test results and SIPR readiness progression updates from the last 3 months along...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 3: Hall E - #2335
The panel will explore the challenges of maintaining our cyber superiority from the tools we use to the talent we build. We will get to hear from a variety of subject matter experts about capabilities critical to cyber operations, how we can develop solutions to get ahead of our adversary and training our forces to be ready for any cyber mission....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 4: Hall F - #2767
Approved for 1 GIAC CPE; 1 CertNexus CEC for CyberSec First Responder (CFR)
Data as Strategic Asset is one of the key pillars of the DOD’s overall strategic plan. To support data strategy planning, managing the vast amounts of data collected and used by the DOD has become a critical task for all organizations. In this panel, the DISA Office of the Chief Data Officer presents a discussion on the best practices for data management; data stewardship, governance, data cataloging, metadata, the role of knowledge management, and the fostering of an entrenched data sharing culture....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 5: Hall F - #3375
Join senior leaders from the DoD CIO, Department of Navy CIO, Department of Air Force CIO, and the Intelligence Community CIO, to discuss the Department’s cloud journey. Learn about progress to date, obstacles overcome, and challenges that remain in adopting commercial cloud services to accelerate capability delivery and innovation in achieving mission success....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 6: Hall G - #3501
Locked Shields is the world’s largest cyber defense exercise, hosted by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE). Over 3,000 participants from 38 nations take part in the exercise, involving protecting real computer systems from real-time attacks and simulating tactical and strategic decisions in critical situations. DISA leads the US team, comprised of full-time military, National Guard, DoD and federal civilians, academia, and university students; strengthening commercial/public/private partnerships. The exercise bolsters individual skills development, giving the university students participating a practitioner's perspective. The panel will discuss participation in this global event....
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Tuesday, May 02, 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Nokia will present results from a one-year study of IoT device behaviors across government and enterprise networks around the world. Using honeypots, active device crawling / discovery and real-time, passive security telemetry from collaborating CSP, Nokia tracked both legitimate and malicious activity across 50+ million devices in 2022. Nokia will focus our talk on a 500K subset of IoT / CPE devices actively engaged in DDoS, scanning and other malicious activity. Nokia will show examples of specific U.S. government and DoD endpoints co-opted into ongoing attacks against enterprise and extra-national governmental infrastructure throughout the Internet. Lastly, we will consider network...
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Tuesday, May 02, 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Ms. Rennie-Brown will be providing a status of on-going NG9-1-1 related initiatives within NASNA....
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Tuesday, May 02, 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Many of the technologies used to improve the security and efficiency of enterprises are also being used to attack them. Hackers are deploying machine learning and automation to increase the frequency and scope of cyberattacks, which requires agency leaders to continuously update their security posture. Essential and well-known functions for this are security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR). What’s less known is the differences among the many SIEM and SOAR products. Criteria to evaluate SIEM products include licensing costs, how much data they process, their alert features, and how easy they are to...
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Tuesday, May 02, 10:45 AM - 11:25 AM
Tuesday, May 02, 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
- Room: Hall G - Booth 4008
Please join us for this panel discussion of current priorities, focus areas, operational concepts and lessons learned and how they are driving the manning, training and equipping of the Cyber Force as it addresses mission and warfighting requirements.
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Tuesday, May 02, 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
XDR is a hot buzzword, with many in the cybersecurity industry trying to define it. In a fast-paced and self-aware look at our industry, GuidePoint Security Government Solutions will trace back where the term comes from and how it fits in the broader landscape of initiatives the DoD is trying to solve. We will look at different approaches to implementing XDR, focused on direct API integrations vs. agnostic automation-based solutions, and how each approach affects the implementation, functionality, and long-term management of XDR systems....
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Tuesday, May 02, 11:25 AM - 12:00 PM
Mr. Anderson will act as Moderator for the GPSC Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN) Panel Session. This session will include briefs by Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile....
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Tuesday, May 02, 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
For inexperienced users coding can be a challenge and getting much needed assistance isn’t always readily available. One challenge can be taking a cli script in vi that was used to collect device status information an exporting it to CSV format. You’ve obtained data from GitHub or even the codeshare portals that various device vendors have available for collaboration. So now all is well, right? But now you need to modify certain parameters of that code/script to add another output column, or associate IP addresses, ports, and names with enabled and disabled states of particular servers or services. And hey...
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Tuesday, May 02, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, May 02, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Room: Booth #2227, Booth #3145
Stop by these booths for some afternoon treats from our supporting partners!...
Tuesday, May 02, 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Tuesday, May 02, 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Ms. Williams will provide an overview of interoperability as it relates to DoD Global Public Safety Communications. She will discuss the links between GPSC and the forthcoming DoDIN APL modernization, the importance of standards conformance to reduce interoperability risk, and how all of this comes together in a deployed system that is interoperable end-to-end.
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Tuesday, May 02, 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
NVIDIA will explore how Generative AI can revolutionize DISA's IT operations, the latest iteration of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models, and the integration of hardware and software needed to enable ChatGPT.
Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art language model that has demonstrated an unprecedented ability to generate human-like text, making it a valuable tool for applications such as natural language processing, machine translation, and content generation. Generative AI can help DISA revolutionize help desk support, accelerate decision-making processes, enhance cybersecurity measures, and streamline internal and external communication. A Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) is a type of deep learning model...
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Tuesday, May 02, 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
DISA will forge partnerships to win, with the foundation that our mission is accomplished through a strong workforce. Discussion provides an overview of the DISA personnel security program. It includes information about DISA security clearance requirements, security clearance process overview, adjudication determination process, contractor clearances linked to DISA contracts, DD254 considerations, and adjudication guidelines to determine eligibility and access to classified information....
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- Room: Hall G - Booth 4008
Got a great capability or solution that could benefit the Department of Defense? Wondering who you should talk to?
Join us for this informative session to hear firsthand from Program and Portfolio Managers. Participating PMs will provide 3-5 minute "lightning talks" about their mission and the kinds of solutions they are looking for. Once you know who to speak with, join the Meet the PMs informal networking session immediately following to meet the speakers and for a follow-on conversation. Networking will take place adjacent to the presentation area in Hall G....
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DISA will forge partnerships to win, with the foundation that our mission is accomplished through a strong workforce. Discussion explores the value proposition in employment branding. Discussion will include the importance of positioning a company, federal, or DoD entity in a way that aligns itself to prospective employees. How do you create an employer brand? What impact will this brand have on recruitment and retention? Why is it critical to tell the story of the employee experience to attracting new talent? Learn about all of this – and more!...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 1: Swing Hall - #3203
Cybersecurity will continue to play a role in our daily lives as DISA continues to play a part across the great power competition and all-domain warfare. As we conduct operational events, tabletops, monitoring and cybersecurity reporting, filling the gaps in communications and C2 is imperative and vital moving forward. This session will discuss the background and how the collective group can close the communications gap and work to share resources and information in this vital domain....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 2: Hall E - #2301
JWCC is an acquisition vehicle designed for the mission owner to rapidly acquire commercial cloud services and capabilities directly from the CSP. JWCC provides foundational commercial cloud services and capabilities that enable transformational initiatives such as Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and Artificial Intelligence and Data Accelerator (ADA)....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 3: Hall E - #2335
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- Room: Engagement Theater 4: Hall F - #2767
Mr. Stephen Wallace, EM's Director, will conduct a technical discussion panel. ...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 5: Hall F - #3375
The Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer recently published two critical initiatives: the 2023-2027 DoD Cyber Workforce Strategy and DoD Manual 8140.03. The strategy establishes the direction for unified management of the cyber workforce and outlines a roadmap for its advancement while DoDM 8140 changes the way that we qualify our workforce. Through the DoD 8140 Cyber Workforce Qualification Program, DoD is expanding the qualification program to roughly 225,000 military, civilian, and contractor positions by establishing foundational and residential qualification criteria for each DoD Cyber Workforce Framework work role. Together, the strategy and program will enable the DoD to...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 6: Hall G - #3501
As cyber threats continue to proliferate and grow in complexity, organizations face an urgent need to ensure that their defenses are focused, aligned, and ready to respond. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging as a powerful tool for enhancing cyber security operations, enabling organizations to proactively detect and respond to threats in real-time.
In this panel, a group of experts come together to discuss the latest developments in AI for cybersecurity. They will explore how AI is being used to enhance threat intelligence, automate threat detection and response, and streamline incident response processes. The panelists will also delve into the challenges...
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Tuesday, May 02, 1:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Pre-register at https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/4100413/E584983D1197A9CEF24F71980EB15DA7
The U.S. DoD has focused on transforming how its workers communicate and work securely. As a result, we have seen a flurry of initiatives and directives. These include the newly-revised and soon to be released DoDD 8140, the revised NICE Initiative framework, CMMC 2.0, and a directive involving zero trust, and the DoD five data decrees. As the DoD pivots to new best practices, it’s time to get some more context.
Join CompTIA’s Chief Technology Evangelist, Dr. James Stanger in a roundtable of key players and prime movers concerning workforce initiatives. You will hear from individuals such as Matt Isnor,...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Zero trust is about knowing who is doing what within your network and ensuring that in the event of anomalous activity, you can control and limit threats to your network. Applying the granularity of Privileged Access Management (PAM) to achieve zero trust objectives ensures all access is appropriate, managed, and documented, regardless of how the perimeter has been redefined. To stay agile, Defense agencies must implement PAM to enable Zero Trust, JADC2, ICAM and other mission critical agency initiatives.
Join this technical session to understand how PAM:
• Inventories all privileged assets to eliminate blind spots, spotlight shadow IT, and control access...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, May 02, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
- Room: Hall G - Booth 4008 Entrance
Immediately following the Program and Portfolio Managers Briefs, there will be the opportunity to meet the speakers and continue the conversation at the Meet the PMs informal networking session located adjacent to the presentation area in Hall G. This is your chance to begin conversations and connect with these leaders and subject matter experts. ...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
On DoD networks, and on the Internet at large, there are an increasing number of non-traditional endpoints that require the ability to phone home for purposes like cloud storage of data and centralized management. DISA is investigating how to improve security of these IoT devices by better classifying IoT network traffic so that new security policies can be developed, and how to secure these devices against attack, both at the network level and on the device itself.
Solution - Peraton’s Platform Cyber Assessment Resiliency (PCAR) is a platform to assess and enhance operational resilience for national mission platforms and critical infrastructure,...
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Tuesday, May 02, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, May 02, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Room: Engagement Theater 1: Swing Hall - #3203
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has been an important part of DoD’s identity and access management portfolio since its rollout. The brief will reflect the overall PKI portfolio and its capabilities and the services DISA is providing. Mr. Parker will specifically detail the capabilities that are coming to DISA; Token Management System (TMS) and Non-Person Entity (NPE) Certificates NPE and what it means to the community that we serve and the additional capabilities that it will provide. Also want to highlight Purebred and Secure Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPR) PUREBRED and where we are going with that capability. In addition, the...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 2: Hall E - #2301
Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU for: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, Linux+, CySA+, CASP+ and PenTest+; 1 GIAC CPE; 1 CertNexus CEC for CyberSec First Responder (CFR)
The DoD is implementing a Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) that offers a consistent roadmap for the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), and beyond, to mature its overall Cybersecurity capabilities in a proactive way to enhance their business case, protect their brand, while protecting our Nation’s Economy and Security. The CMMC ecosystem consists of various organizations managed and coordinated by the CyberAB and the Cybersecurity Assessor and Instructor Certification Organization (CAICO), they currently include:
Organizations Seeking Compliance...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 3: Hall E - #2335
Most artificial intelligence (AI) projects fail to deliver on expected value (Source: McKinsey, others). When AI projects fail in support of the cyber mission force, we compromise our ability to counter adversaries in cyberspace, weakening national security. As cyber threats grow in volume, velocity, and complexity, successful AI implementation and adoption becomes increasingly urgent.
With over a decade of experience designing, developing, and delivering enterprise AI applications, C3 AI has witnessed failed AI initiatives across many industries. During this session, we will share common observations across these failures as well as best practices and lessons learned for more successful enterprise AI...
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Tuesday, May 02, 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
The challenge to the joint mission only increases in the multi-domain operations arena. Identity if not harnessed as a cyber power can become stagnant and dull. Rather than become an digital lethargy, if properly harnessed, the cyber power of identity can provide the digital sharp end of the spear for the joint force through integration to cyber threat response and insider threat mitigation.
When the cyber power of identity is employed for risk reduction and mission agility via rapid governed attribute injection for digital system access (or denial), identity empowers the joint force for mission success. In employing identity, the joint...
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Tuesday, May 02, 3:30 PM - 3:35 PM
Tuesday, May 02, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
- Room: Hall G - Booth 4008
The latest DoD Cyber Workforce Strategy has four goals:
1) Execute consistent capability assessment and analysis processes to stay ahead of force needs.
2) Establish an enterprise-wide talent management program to better align force capabilities with current and future requirements.
3) Facilitate a cultural shift to optimize Department-wide personnel management activities.
4) Foster collaboration and partnerships to enhance capability development, operational effectiveness, and career broadening experiences.
This panel of military leaders and workforce experts will provide insight on initiatives to implement this strategy and share perspectives that all organizations should consider addressing their own cyber workforce challenges.
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Tuesday, May 02, 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Text Analytics is a branch of machine learning (ML) combined with natural language processing (NLP) which extracts key characteristics from unstructured text documents. The additional processing cycles can improve trust for data assets by expanding their accessibility. Improved search of the content through correlation statistics, sentiment analysis, entity recognition and summarization can be easily automated.
Using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, this talk will explore the potential data engineering operationalization and its impact on the associated metadata management. Keywords: LLM, ChatGPT, Text Analytics, Data Engineering, Unstructured Data, Sentiment Analysis, Summarization, Metadata Management, Feature Engineering, Hitachi Lumada DataOps....
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Tuesday, May 02, 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Big problem: nearly 90% of IoT devices still use default credentials. That’s a direct IoT pathway to breaches and data exfiltration. But does it have to be this way? Is it even possible to change and maturely manage IoT credentials?
CyberArk and our partner Phosphorous help organizations to continuously discover devices connecting to the network, plus automatically onboards and manages the credentials for IoT devices while being able to detect and respond to threats. This is part of a broader Identity Security platform which can continuously control access to systems for human and non-person entities alike. This integrated solution makes life...
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Tuesday, May 02, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
- Room: Halls E, F, G and Swing
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Tuesday, May 02, 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
With the proliferation of generative AI models adversaries have gained yet another tool with which to probe, infiltrate and exploit systems supporting and protecting our national security. Methods of compromise and toolsets will more rapidly change and evolve. Vectra AI’s unique, security-led approach to apply specific AI/ML algorithms mapped to tactics, techniques and procedures employed by cyber criminals has allowed Vectra to successfully surface unique and novel Insider Threat activities that evade current tooling and superficial, math-led approaches.
Learn how Vectra detects Insider Threats without the need to install agents or break and inspect traffic while operating in completely air-gapped environments...
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Tuesday, May 02, 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Information has always been the key to success on and off the battlefield, but that success depends on having that information available at the right place at the right time. The transition to a “digital force” has data production and consumption growing at exponential rates. This showcase takes the nuances and challenges of battlefield data management into account as we will discuss practical solutions to meet tactical DataOps requirements....
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Wednesday, May 03, 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
- Room: West Pratt Street Lobby
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Wednesday, May 03, 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, May 03, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
- Room: Halls E, F, G and Swing
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Wednesday, May 03, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Wednesday, May 03, 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Wednesday, May 03, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Overview of US Air Force's Military Auxiliary Radio System program and DoD offerings....
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Wednesday, May 03, 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
The escalating threat of cyber warfare means agencies are constantly reevaluating their cybersecurity policies. Often, these agencies operate with multi-layered security solutions, resulting in intricate and complex environments that can be difficult to navigate, especially if these tools aren’t integrated to communicate with each other.
This scenario is a potential cause for alarm as cybercriminals wait for the slightest oversight, allowing them to penetrate systems undetected. Fidelis Elevate serves as a preemptive extended detection and response (XDR) solution, proactively safeguarding against threats before they impact security systems. Its revolutionary architecture incorporates deception technologies with endpoint (EDR), network (NDR), and cloud detection...
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Wednesday, May 03, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- Room: Engagement Theater 6: Hall G - #3501
Time-division multiplexing (TDM) networks are becoming increasingly costly to maintain and operate. Hear how Verizon modernized its high-traffic network and how DoD can continue to embrace digital transformation to drive mission success. This roadmap will help agencies navigate the complexities of existing networks and implement cost-effective strategies for TDM migration....
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Wednesday, May 03, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Overview of Department of Homeland Security's HF SHARES program....
DISA will forge partnerships to win, with the foundation that our mission is accomplished through a strong workforce. Data analytics and data maintenance processes in the realm of human capital metrics have become topics with broad ranging consequences; as seen in Silicon Valley’s streamlining of business processes and resulting downsizing, and the United States' competitive race for cyber power with China and Russia. In these two very different scenarios, entities have analyzed the skills embedded in their human capital to maintain competitiveness. This panel will focus on how federal agencies continue to build and maintain their data infrastructure to facilitate...
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DISA will forge partnerships to win, with the foundation that our mission is accomplished through a strong workforce. Remaining competitive in an already-competitive labor market is not easy – it requires training, retraining, and always operating in excellence. Panel questions will include topics on reskilling, upskilling, and development opportunities in government, industry, and academia. ...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 1: Swing Hall - #3203
Thunderdome is DISA’s implementation of a zero trust security model at the enterprise level. It is a fundamental change in how we currently are architected to enhance both security and network performance. Zero trust assumes the network is already compromised and is a process that validates the user, device, application and data in a controlled manner.
This session will provide an overview of the Thunderdome program with specific emphasis on how it enables Zero Trust. It will also cover Thunderdome component breakdown and address the linkage to the Joint Regional Security Stack (JRSS) sunset....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 2: Hall E - #2301
Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU for: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, and Linux+; 1 CertNexus CEC for CyberSec First Responder (CFR)
Joint Force Headquarters – Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DODIN) is at the forefront of securing the cyberspace environment. Data Science is the critical discipline behind the development and implementation of our current and future cybersecurity tools. Data modeling, data cataloging, anomaly detection, and network traffic analysis are critical components. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are opening the door for real-time modeling and predictive analysis. In this panel, we discuss the roles and relationship between DISA and JFHQ-DODIN...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 3: Hall E - #2335
Join representatives from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for this informative session. They will talk about DIU - who they are, who they aren't, and how they help their DoD and Industry partners....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 4: Hall F - #2767
If you had 90 seconds to make a great first impression, what would you say? What should you say? What shouldn’t you say? Come join us for a down and dirty, quick turn training session on developing your Elevator Pitch. Then, if you dare, sign up to give your elevator pitch live and in front of DISA personnel. If they like what they hear, they just might give you their business card to arrange a one-on-one meeting with you – but only if they like what they hear!
Learn the importance of effective communication and how to grab your audience’s attention...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 5: Hall F - #3375
The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) that is resident in non-federal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to DoD. To promote safeguarding of DoD information in non-federal systems, DoD stood up the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity (CS) Program with the mission of enhancing and supplementing DIB participants’ ability to safeguard that information, and better protect warfighter. This session will review the DIB CS Program’s four primary lines of effort, and how taking advantage of this public-private partnership can help bolster cybersecurity resiliency. There will be a Q&A session following the brief....
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Wednesday, May 03, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Wednesday, May 03, 10:00 AM - 2:45 PM
Register for the conference. Bring your resume. Meet us in Room 326 on Wednesday from 10-2:45 PM Eastern. You could get HIRED ON-THE-SPOT!
Looking for a career at the #EmployerOfChoice? The Defense Information Systems Agency is hosting a Career Fair at TechNet Cyber! This event offers a fantastic opportunity to network with a variety of DISA subject matter experts to learn about career paths, what it is like to work at the agency, as well as available internship and full-time opportunities.
DISA will have nearly two dozen hiring managers ready to make you an offer...on-the-spot! We're hiring for many different types of...
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Wednesday, May 03, 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
It's high time that we get past our wonderment at ChatGPT and focus on more worthy projects. Join CompTIA's Chief Technology Evangelist, Dr. James Stanger, as he discusses practical uses of AI that he has found in his interactions with cybersecurity workers worldwide. He will discuss practical AI/ML cybersecurity implementations used by organizations such as Red Hat, Astrazeneca, and MITRE, for example. He will show how they got real about working with their AI/ML cybersecurity co-workers. They did this by getting past typical "mythconceptions" "mythpractices" about AI/ML, including our very human tendency to trust nonsense that emits from what appears...
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Wednesday, May 03, 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
- Room: Hall G - Booth 4008
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Wednesday, May 03, 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Threat actors have direct access to valid credentials obtained through infostealer malware at a scale that’s unimaginable – according to SpyCloud data, 24,000 infections alone in 2022 among just a sample of defense contractors. It’s putting admin credentials and other forms of identity and authentication data in the wrong hands. Even on CAC protected systems, infostealers are extracting cyber vulnerabilities valuable to our adversaries to understand infrastructure, hidden IP addresses and the online activity of service members and contractors.
The DoD and DIB Supply Chain must better prepare for the threat of malware, and threat actors’ increasing reliance on it for...
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Wednesday, May 03, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Every cybersecurity vendor today says their tool is AI or ML based or includes AI/ML features. How useful are they in reality? Are there very simple quick wins that applied AI/ML can deliver today? How achievable is this for an enterprise without the purchase of expensive, and often limited, tools? In this short talk and demonstration, David Hoelzer (SANS Fellow and CIO of an MSSP) will walk you through how his team is building real-world threat hunting solutions today and share with you
some of the most effective techniques that, with a bit of knowledge and effort, you can put into...
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Overview of Savannah Cyber Training Center and course offerings to DoD personnel...
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Wednesday, May 03, 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Quantum computing is advancing rapidly and its impact is likely to be large—the potential computational power could render today’s encryption algorithms obsolete. To address this looming threat, the White House issued a National Security Memorandum on Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Cryptographic Systems (NSM 10) in this May. The NSM 10 fact sheet states that “America must start the lengthy process of updating our IT infrastructure today to protect against this quantum computing threat tomorrow.”
The memo continues by stressing that, “Central to this migration effort will be an emphasis on cryptographic agility, both...
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Wednesday, May 03, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Wednesday, May 03, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is the senior official responsible for the acceleration of the DoD’s adoption of data, analytics, and AI to generate decision advantage.
Join us for this conversation with Dr. Craig Martell, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, when we will discuss this key and growing organization’s accomplishments, priorities and future path.
About the CDAO:
Initially stood up in February 2022 by integrating the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), Defense Digital Services (DDS), and the Chief Data Officer into one organization, the CDAO achieved full operating capability in June 2022.The CDAO is building a strong...
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Wednesday, May 03, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Update to 2022's INDOPACOM IPRN, briefed by Mr. John Holloway on behalf of Mr. Tom Grant. ...
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Wednesday, May 03, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Room: Booth #3145, Booth #3002
Stop by these booths for some afternoon treats from our supporting partners!...
Wednesday, May 03, 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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Wednesday, May 03, 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
The Department of Defense’s most valuable asset – its people – will be a critical component to achieve its cybersecurity workforce objectives in a complex global environment. To combat current and future cyber threats, DoD must empower and develop a highly-skilled cyber workforce. Employing the latest technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as more effectively recruiting, retaining, upskilling, and reskilling will allow DoD to have a mission ready workforce of the future.
The DoD Cyber Workforce (CWF) Strategy will enable the DoD to close workforce development gaps, resource workforce management and development initiatives, stay at the forefront...
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Wednesday, May 03, 1:45 PM - 2:25 PM
- Room: Engagement Theater 1: Swing Hall - #3203
The DISA Europe Regional Field Commander recounts DISA’s response to the Russia attack on Ukraine in February 2022. It focuses on DISA’s actions as a combat support agency, from initial planning through crisis operations to the present monitoring and expansion efforts, to create a secure reliable, communications infrastructure for both the US and Partners. It also touches on the strategic importance of government and industry partnerships to enable theater warfighters and weapons systems in resilient all-domain operations to meet the future steady state, multi-national C5ISR requirements in the European theater....
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Wednesday, May 03, 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
DISA will forge partnerships to win, with the foundation that our mission is accomplished through a strong workforce. Join this panel to explore the opportunities, challenges, and best practices of managing a technical workforce through a diverse and inclusive lens. Listen to expert panelists from government and industry discuss trends in recruitment and retention, organizational climate, and special themes related to successfully managing a Science Technology and Engineering Math workforce....
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DISA will forge partnerships to win, with the foundation that our mission is accomplished through a strong workforce. OPM surveys all federal civilians annually with the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS). DISA has focused on creating partnerships in the agency, increasing participation in the survey, and acting on the results. DISA has aligned FEVS processes and communications efforts and created an agency working group to facilitate necessary cultural change. DISA has significantly increased civilian employee participation through internal communications, the use of FEVS Ambassadors and FEVS POCs; yielding increased confidence in the data. This Fireside Chat will discuss these successes,...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 2: Hall E - #2301
Presentation will provide an overview of current EMBM-J capabilities and planned development and deployments....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 3: Hall E - #2335
The Joint Common Warfighting Architecture (JCWA) was established by USCYBERCOMMAND (USCC) to guide development and procurement for the Command’s global warfighting capabilities. The scale and complexity of this operational construct requires unified governance and leadership at the strategic and operational levels, while the dynamic operating environment demands agility, initiative, and speed at the tactical level to keep pace with the constantly evolving mission and threat. As USCC staff processes and the acquisition of JCWA continues to evolve, the joint governance process must actively engage key stakeholders to validate, support, and refine the JCWA vision, roadmap, prioritization, and sequencing of the...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 4: Hall F - #2767
An example of velocity of action, CaaS is one of DISA’s first attempts to implement its six-month agile minimum viable product (MVP) approach. Specifically, the CaaS team was given six months to explore CaaS, turn it into an MVP, and then pilot the idea. CaaS provides secure, on-premise, cloud-based container hosting technology that facilitates application portability across multiple hosting areas and enables mission partners to run an application and all its dependencies in isolated processes. These isolated processes, or code packages, have everything the app needs to reliably run its software in any environment....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 5: Hall F - #3375
The DoD Software Modernization Strategy, approved February 1, 2022, recognized that the Department increasingly relies on software and the ability to securely and rapidly deliver resilient software. Transforming software delivery times from years to minutes requires significant change to our processes, policies, workforce, and technology. The Strategy challenged us to be bold…to lead the transformation of technology, process, and people in delivering resilient software capability at the speed of relevance. The DoD Software Modernization Implementation Plan is the follow-on call to action, aiming to establish capabilities that simplify the mechanics of software delivery, allowing teams to instead focus on creativity.
The...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 6: Hall G - #3501
Quantum computing’s ability to solve complex problems that are beyond the capabilities of the traditional computer renders it exceptional. While the quantum research community applauds the accelerated rate at which quantum computers are being developed; it is also a threat considering it can unravel the algorithms behind the encryption keys that protect the assets we hold most dear (like our data and the internet’s infrastructure). It is estimated that within the next 3-5 years quantum computers will be able to break a 2048-bit number. This remarkable breakthrough continues to erode the timeline, demonstrating the hastening approach of a new paradigm...
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Recent security breaches have organizations across the DoD rethinking their Zero Trust Architectures and how they handle insider threats. Combine this with the need to have distributed data access for distributed teams and you could have a massive problem on your hands.
We invite you to join us as we share how Splunk’s data platform is helping organizations across the DoD build out their ZTA architectures and monitor for insider threats, while allowing secure access to data from anywhere. If you’re still thinking about or using Splunk as “just a logging tool” – you’re leaving a ton of value (and security...
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Wednesday, May 03, 1:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Join F5 at AFCEA TechNet Baltimore for an in-person bootcamp tailored for DISA and the DoD. In this session you will learn the essentials of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) with an introduction to common and advanced LTM features. This course will help you build a well-rounded skill set needed to understand and manage the BIG-IP systems as part of a flexible and high-performance application delivery network. You will have access to F5 SME’s Anthony Graber and August Winterstein during session for Q&A throughout. This is a high value course that will help you earn CPE credits while providing you...
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Wednesday, May 03, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
US Army NETCOM overview of HF capabilities and exercises.
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Wednesday, May 03, 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Today, digital technology is ubiquitous, digital collaboration is woven into everyday life, and artificial intelligence (AI) is available at our fingertips, fueled by the availability of staggering volumes of data generated from the billions of interconnected devices. Taking advantage of big data and AI, DISA is committed to developing advanced analytics and business intelligence, to enhance day-to-day decision-making and capabilities for joint all-domain operations.
KPMG, LLP will present thoughts and use cases on how DISA could take advantage of generative AI to enhance decisioning in cybersecurity operations, accelerate code development, and improve customer experience.
Our presentation will be led by Viral Chawda,...
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Wednesday, May 03, 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
- Room: Hall G - Booth 4008
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Wednesday, May 03, 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
- Room: Engagement Theater 1: Swing Hall - #3203
The Five Eyes Alliance (FVEY) is a cooperative intelligence network comprise of The United States, The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This panel will showcase the roles, responsibilities as well as the accomplishments of the DISA FVEY Liaison Officers. They will be giving a brief description of their duties and the support they provide to both DISA and their home countries. This will be a moderated session and will included a question-and-answer period....
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Wednesday, May 03, 2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Wednesday, May 03, 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
As the edge becomes more capable, developers are looking at how to exploit all of the power at the edge for AI inference, data compression, and data analytics in a distributed manner. Deploying microservices and data transformations on edge requires new ways to securely deploy microservices on heterogeneous devices in a large edge ecosystem. Additional cybersecurity vulnerabilities arise when the data transformation microservices consume and publish information from data streams distributed over the mesh.
Specifically, there is a need to protect the data mesh from bad actors from eavesdropping on data streams, injecting information into data streams, taking data transformation microservices,...
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Wednesday, May 03, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Room: Engagement Theater 1: Swing Hall - #3203
Vulcan is a suite of tools that helps customers adopt DevSecOps and Agile practices by enabling modern project management, software development, and IT infrastructure. Whether customers are on-prem at the beginning of their automation journey, or fully deploying cloud native applications, Vulcan provides the tools to facilitate internal collaboration, ensure visibility of tasks, and automate critical processes. Vulcan offers a value proposition and strives to meet customers where they are....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 2: Hall E - #2301
Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU for: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, and Linux+; 1 GIAC CPE; 1 CertNexus CEC for CyberSec First Responder (CFR)
The moderator will ask the panel members a series of questions about the current and future of the security for the ten DoD Internet Access Points. In addition to web and email, the panel can also touch on DNS and DDoS protections.
What does the future hold for Perimeter Defense of the DoD Information Network at the Internet boundaries? This panel will explore the current architecture, and address questions about the future of security protections in both the near...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 3: Hall E - #2335
As USCYBERCOM has embraced its responsibility to provision warfighting capabilities for the Joint Forces, it pursues all available avenues to enable acquisition at the speed of cyber. This talk will discuss some of those acquisition innovations, address the role of USCYBERCOM in the DOD science and technology community, explain the public USCYBERCOM Command Challenge Problems, and highlight the challenges to be addressed by USCYBERCOM's artificial intelligence roadmap and implementation plan....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 4: Hall F - #2767
Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU for: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, and Linux+; 1 GIAC CPE; 1 CertNexus CEC for CyberSec First Responder (CFR)
With the DoD driving a multi-cloud approach, the time is right to also consider the advantages of Security Information Event Management (SIEM) capabilities in the cloud. A cloud based SIEM capability would centralize and aggregate all security-relevant events as they’re generated from their source, add real time context, and threat intelligence, and ingest all user and/or application data from the cloud sources, making them available for monitoring, alerting, investigation and real time searching. Cloud computing reduces risk by...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 6: Hall G - #3501
Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU for: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, and Linux+; 1 GIAC CPE; 1 CertNexus CEC for CyberSec First Responder (CFR)
The U.S. Government has embarked on an endeavor to improve cyber security, including critical infrastructure, by migrating to zero trust architecture with the deadline for executive departments and agencies to meet specific standards and objectives by the end of FY 2024.
OMB Memo M-22-09 states, “The foundational tenet of the Zero Trust Model is that no actor, system, network, or service operating outside or within the security perimeter is trusted. Instead, we must verify anything and everything attempting to...
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Wednesday, May 03, 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Join this session to learn how Centralized Command and Control in today’s enterprise network demands end-to-end visibility of user experience with actionable insights to quickly resolve issues and achieve mission objectives. Recent years have brought a seismic shift in how government agencies manage digital connections. From the rapid move to hybrid work to the expanded use of cloud services and software-defined technologies, the nature of today’s networks bears little resemblance to those that were in place just a few years ago.
There were times when it was enough to have a monitoring tool dedicated to checking LAN and WAN health in...
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Wednesday, May 03, 3:20 PM - 4:10 PM
Wednesday, May 03, 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
ChatGPT and the new Generative AI tools excel at summarizing and re-phrasing existing text. We can prompt these tools to provide us with information “in the style of X” or explain a concept us “like I’m a fifth grader.” We can leverage this capability to translate jargon-filled, abstract security controls in the NIST SP 800-53 documents to meaningful information for specific roles and situations. Software developers, project managers, UX designers, ISSOs, system owners, enterprise architects, executives have different frames if reference and terminology through which they view information systems.
Wouldn’t it be nice if NIST published a version of its controls,...
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Wednesday, May 03, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Room: Hall G - Booth 4008
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Wednesday, May 03, 4:10 PM - 4:15 PM
Wednesday, May 03, 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Seceon OTM Platform is built grounds up to "Moderning Cybersecurity for Digital-Era". The platform ingests raw data like logs, flows, and identities from all the assets, applications, services, users, hosts, and processes and extracts 2000+ features, which are tracked by Machine Learning, AI, and Dynamic Threat Models to deliver:
a. Comprehensive Visibility
b. Proactive Detection of Threats and Breaches in the early stages of attacks so that the organization does not have to deal with successful data breaches and ransomware
c. Auto and Playbook-based Remediation by applying policies and Firewalls, Gateways, Identity Management Systems, and End-Points to block, disable, and kill processes, coroutine...
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Wednesday, May 03, 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
This presentation includes an interactive demo to describe the core elements necessary to achieve a zero-trust architecture, and how those core composable elements protect joint and coalition military operations.
The Department of Defense is leveraging Cloud Service Providers (CSP) to embrace the “perimeterless” cybersecurity of a zero-trust architecture. Modern zero-trust architectures must be designed, deployed and operated in a manner that keeps pace with the ever-changing threat landscape. Security offerings face the perils of keeping pace with the threat or perishing as a viable solution. The composable architecture of the CSPs allows for flexibility and rapid innovation.
The stakes are even higher...
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Wednesday, May 03, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us for our AFCEA IDEA networking reception from 5-6pm in the Sharp Street Lobby/Terrace on Wednesday, May 3. Meet the participants from the earlier IDEA panel on Zero Trust to continue the discussions in an informal setting and mix with fellow professionals in the AFCEA community over drinks and hors d’oeuvres....
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Thursday, May 04, 8:00 AM - 1:30 PM
- Room: West Pratt Street Lobby
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Thursday, May 04, 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
- Room: Halls E, F, G and Swing
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Thursday, May 04, 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Empower AI will demonstrate the described process in this presentation and how it can impact the identified use cases, with a focus on a successful roadmap and the limitations and risks of Generative AI for DISA. Additionally, real-world implementations and the challenges for DISA using cybersecurity applications for illustration will be discussed. Finally, the foundation of Generative AI is based on quality data, so the presentation will also address the best practices that DISA can use, and the tools to train a language model like GPT-3, using DoD data. By doing so, DISA can leverage the power of generative AI...
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Thursday, May 04, 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Major Phillips will provide an overview of the status of the DoD EMWN initiative being led by the US Army on behalf of the DoD....
Thursday, May 04, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
- Room: Engagement Theater 1: Swing Hall - #3203
Brief presentation and discussion about Performance Monitoring....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 2: Hall E - #2301
Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU for: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, and Linux+; 1 GIAC CPE
The Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) brief will consist of a summary of ICAM technologies, DoD Enterprise Operational Overview, delivered capabilities, future deliveries, federation, and onboarding process. ICAM enables cyber security principles of least privilege, separation of duties, and timely access revocations through complete automation of access controls. Future capabilities of identity attributing will enhance Zero Trust technologies through attribute or rule-based controls....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 3: Hall E - #2335
CYBER SURVIVABILITY IN A NUTSHELL: In 2017, the Joint Staff added Cyber Survivability (cybersecurity and cyber resilience) as part of the System Survivability Key Performance Parameter (SS-KPP) for Joint system acquisitions. This was directed by the Deputy Secretary of Defense in response to Operational Test & Evaluation findings of multiple weapon systems with the same “dirty dozen” high risk vulnerabilities every year. These vulnerability risks were well known, should have been fixed prior to operational test and would now be harder and more costly to mitigate to an operationally acceptable level.
The probable root cause was that almost all legacy...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 4: Hall F - #2767
Stratus is a DoD on-prem cloud built to meet unique mission partner requirements. Stratus drove IT innovation with its implementation in less than six months to meet the immediate need of milCloud 2.0 Customers. Today, Stratus provides a multi-tenant, self-service management capability for compute, storage, and network infrastructure. It delivers rapid elasticity, resource pooling, and broad network access through a self-service on-demand web-based portal where DOD customers can manage their resources as needed....
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- Room: Engagement Theater 5: Hall F - #3375
Over the past 20 years, the DoD and USG have leveraged a network-centric security approach as our primary cybersecurity strategy. However, continuous breaches, data leaks, vulnerabilities, insider threats, and ATPs have shown that our previous methods were ineffective at stopping/deterring malicious adversaries. Upon the advent of Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, the DoD has adopted Zero Trust (ZT), a paradigm shifting cybersecurity strategy that emphasizes data-centric security throughout the enterprise. To support the adoption and implementation of ZT throughout the DoD, the DoD CIO established the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office (ZT PfMO) to act as the centralized...
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- Room: Engagement Theater 6: Hall G - #3501
As cyber threats evolve, cyber defenders continue to embrace new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to assist with protecting networks and assets in cyberspace. Recent advances in AI, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have raised the question of what progress in AI will mean for cyber defenders as they detect and respond to cyber attacks. The panel will share insights on the latest developments and trends in this fast-changing aspect of cybersecurity....
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Thursday, May 04, 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
By now, the whole world has heard of ChatGPT — with most organizations trying to understand how ChatGPT and Generative AI can directly benefit them. And rightfully so. A recent study found that organizations who successfully rolled out ChatGPT were seeing higher employee satisfaction and productivity. Simply put, employees who are empowered with generative AI are happier at work.
But, as a federal agencies & government practitioners, you can’t leverage Generative AI completely unencumbered. There are inherent risks associated with GAI — like security, privacy, factualness, and the overall safety of end-users. But what most don’t realize is that the real...
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Thursday, May 04, 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
- Room: Hall G - Booth 4008
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Thursday, May 04, 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
As a pure-play cybersecurity provider, Trellix has successfully maintained a long-term security architecture and proven partnership with the US Department of Defense (DoD) that has grown and evolved alongside its dynamic mission requirements. With a focus on delivering security outcomes, Trellix is poised to facilitate DoD digital transformation objectives and protect what matters most – DoD data. Securing the DoD enterprise to contend with the cybersecurity risks that we face today, while proactively preparing the environment to defend itself from the adversaries of tomorrow requires nuance, experience, and the tools necessary to meet the speed of the mission.
To ensure that...
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Thursday, May 04, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Thursday, May 04, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Mr. Michael Clark is the Director of Acquisition and Technology, J9, at
United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). With experience in USCYBERCOM that
pre-dates the conception of the organization, Mr. Clark is keenly aware of
the strategic and operational capability gaps to compete with our
adversaries in cyberspace. His current role is delivering those key
capabilities, namely the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA).
USCYBERCOM is maturing its acquisition management responsibilities, going
from an acquisition workforce of 10 personnel to manage $70M of execution in
2013 to currently execution $750M, and now growing toward a Program
Executive Office (PEO) to manage JCWA in Fiscal Year 2027 as enacted by
National Defense Authorization...
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Thursday, May 04, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
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Thursday, May 04, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
- Room: 300-level, Pratt Street and Howard Street Lobbies
Join DISA and JFHQ-DODIN senior leaders for an informal outreach session on the closing day of TechNet Cyber. This is your chance to begin conversations and connect with these leaders and subject matter experts. Open to all registered attendees, no prior appointment necessary....
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